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Football Conference Premier , North , South. The —16 Premier League known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons was the 24th season of the Premier League , the top English professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in The season began on 8 August , and was scheduled to conclude on 15 May Chelsea began the season as defending champions of the —15 season.

Bournemouth , Watford and Norwich City entered as the three promoted teams from the —15 Football League Championship.

Leicester City won the championship for the first time in their year history, becoming the 24th club to become English football champions , and the sixth club to win the Premier League.

Many commentators consider this to be one of the greatest sports shocks in history, especially considering that Leicester City spent much of the previous season in the relegation zone before finishing 14th.

Leicester City were the surprise of the season. Following their late escape from relegation in the previous season many pundits had predicted that they would be relegated [8] and bookmakers gave 5,—1 odds on them winning the title.

Pearson had been known for his short temper with the press, while Ranieri has a reputation for good humour. Despite winning their opening game against Sunderland and topping the table, they dropped back following a 5—2 defeat by Arsenal in September.

They returned to the top after a 1—1 draw with Aston Villa on 16 January and remained there for the rest of the season. They broke the joint-record of 7th set by Blackburn Rovers in —96 and Manchester United in — Arsenal, looking for their first title since and following a poor start, improved and in early January took the top spot from Leicester.

However, a poor run of results, including draws with Liverpool, [15] Stoke [16] and Southampton, [17] and a loss to Chelsea [18] saw them drop to fourth by mid-February.

They remained in contention, but draws with West Ham, [19] Sunderland [20] and Crystal Palace [21] in April saw their title hopes vanish.

Meanwhile, their London rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, won six matches in a row, and when Arsenal lost to Manchester United at the end of February, Tottenham leapfrogged them into second place, [22] where they remained until the final weekend of the season.

Draws with West Bromwich Albion [23] and Chelsea stopped them winning their first title since The game in which Tottenham's title challenge ended was their 2—2 draw at Chelsea on 2 May, with many altercations between players and benches on and off the field, especially after Eden Hazard scored the equalizing and final goal.

After a 2—1 home loss to Southampton and a 5—1 defeat away to Newcastle United in their final two matches, Tottenham ended the season in third place, one point behind Arsenal.

Aston Villa, a presence in the Premier League since the league's foundation in and present in the top division since the —89 season, were the first team to be mathematically relegated, after a 1—0 loss at Manchester United on 16 April.

All of the final fixtures of the season were scheduled for 15 May, and to kick off at the same time. However, Manchester United's home game against Bournemouth was postponed for a future date after Old Trafford was evacuated because of the discovery of a suspicious device, which was destroyed in a controlled explosion.

It was confirmed to be an accidental leftover from a training exercise. The unlikely nature of Leicester's title led to a flood of coverage from across the globe.

Premier League chairman Richard Scudamore described it as "biggest story we've ever had" in English football. Superstitious claims of phenomena helping Leicester win the league include the club's Thai owners employing Buddhist monks to bless the players, [31] and the reburial of King Richard III in the city's cathedral in March Twenty teams competed in the league — the top seventeen teams from the previous season, as well as the three teams promoted from the Championship.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see —16 Premier League disambiguation. Premier League Rules for classification: As they had also qualified by their virtue of their league position 5th , this spot was passed to the next-highest ranked team 6th , Southampton.

However, since they already qualified for European competition based on their league position, the spot awarded to the League Cup winners was passed to the next best-placed team seventh-placed West Ham United.

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Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. PFA Player of the Year winner Eden Hazard scored the winning goal near the end of the first half, heading in the rebound of his own penalty kick.

The win left Chelsea 16 points ahead of Arsenal, which had five games remaining. It was the fifth title in the club's year history.

He won titles at Chelsea in and , before being forced out by owner Roman Abramovich , and returning in Diego Costa led Chelsea with 20 goals.

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